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USACE’s Jeff King, left, and CCCR director Mike Beck recently announced a partnership for work on nature-based solutions. Coastal communities face escalating risks from climate change, natural disasters, and the loss of coastal habitats, such as salt marshes, mangroves, and coral reefs, and the outlook is particularly dire for many of our most vulnerable communities…. Read More
Jacksonville District Awards Contract for Duval Beach Restoration USACE Jacksonville awarded a $32.4 million contract Dec. 18, 2023, to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., LLC, of Houston, Texas, for re-nourishment of approximately 10 miles of the Duval Co. Atlantic shoreline. The Shore Protection Project, Beach Renourishment 2024, Duval Co., Florida, the restoration will reinforce… Read More
Starting Monday, March 4, 2024, the County Dredge and the Town’s contractor, Dig-It Construction, will begin mobilizing equipment in preparation for the Cotuit Bay Entrance Channel Dredging Project. This project will consist of dredging the approach channel into Cotuit Bay. The dredged material will be used for beach nourishment at the eastern end of Dead… Read More
J.F. Brennan Co. Inc., La Crosse, Wisconsin, was awarded a $14,700,250 firm-fixed-price contract for the Webbers Falls Stilling Basin Repairs project. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, with an estimated completion date of July 16, 2026. Fiscal 2024 civil construction funds in the amount… Read More
SEA ISLE CITY – Mayor Leonard Desiderio announced that the city will see the start of its important beach replenishment project as soon as next week but certainly by mid-March. Desiderio said that schedule follows a project meeting with the contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, and the Army Corps of Engineers. He made the… Read More
Ocracoke received some good news recently when Catherine Peele, a planning developer with the NC Ferry Division, reported to the Ocracoke Waterways Commission that the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) has approved Sloop Channel in the Hatteras Inlet for dredging. This is the area in the “horseshoe” where two ferries cannot pass and must make… Read More
As I arrived at the Port of Oakland, a high-tech nautical mud abduction was underway. On a cherry-red dredger, a 55-cubic-yard clamshell bucket hung from a crane by a webbing of cable, like a 45-ton chandelier. With open jaws, the bucket descended into the water, sank to the harbor floor, closed over a thick scoop… Read More
More than 60 years in the making, the Fire Island to Montauk Point beach reformulation project will have arrived and departed from Montauk’s downtown in barely the blink of an eye. The beach-infill component of the project known as FIMP began on Feb. 6 and was completed on Sunday, with around 475,000 cubic yards of… Read More
SAN CLEMENTE— On Feb. 9, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District commander, Col. Andrew Baker, met with San Clemente Mayor Victor Cabral regarding the progress of the San Clemente Beach Nourishment project. The two leaders surveyed the project site near the San Clemente Pier, engaging in discussions of the project’s trajectory and… Read More
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District released today the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (DPEA #598) for the Reach A, Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Project, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico (MTG), Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana for public review and comment. The proposed plan evaluates alternatives to construct a hurricane… Read More
Vicksburg, Miss. — Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/48256 Report Number: ERDC/TN DOER-24-1 Title: Hurdles to Beneficial Use of Dredged Material: Root Cause Analysis By Jase Ousley, Ram Mohan, Melinda Strevig, Katherine Skelton, Marin Kress, J. Daniel Farrar, and Alan J. Kennedy Approved for Public Release; Distribution is Unlimited Source
The Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began equipment mobilization Feb. 22 for the re-nourishment of the St. Johns County, St. Augustine Beach, federal shore protection project. The USACE contractor began establishing a staging area at the Pope Road access point and will continue deploying equipment in the week ahead. Beach… Read More
Following two devastating storms in January that caused an estimated $20 million in damage to public infrastructure, York County in Maine is considering deploying its newly acquired dredge to assist in coastal restoration efforts. The initiative, fueled by a $1.54 million investment from American Rescue Plan Act funds, aims to address the urgent need for… Read More
Beach restoration projects in the Ponte Vedra Beach and St. Augustine Beach areas in the coming months will cause some beach closures. Major beach restoration projects are about to get underway in St. Johns County, one of Florida’s most tourist-reliant counties. Two substantial portions of shoreline will undergo restoration work nearly simultaneously beginning in March. One… Read More
Water spilled over the edges of the clamshell shovel like a fountain as the crane hoisted the final bucket of dredged material. On Jan. 24, the six cubic yard-scoop of shoal marked the completion of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District’s first project funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Now, one of… Read More